1. Is history on the decline -- 2. The significance of art : historical or aesthetic -- 3. What is a fact of music history -- 4. Does music history have a 'subject' -- 5. Historicism and tradition -- 6. Hermeneutics in history -- 7. The value-judgment : object or premise of history -- 8. The 'relative autonomy' of music history -- 9. Thoughts on structural history -- 10. Problems in reception history.